I Love Brunch

LORAC I Love Brunch Eyeshadow Palette ($44.00 for 0.48 oz.) includes 16 eyeshadows with a mix of matte and shimmer finishes, cool and warm-toned shades that are centered around a pastel theme. This palette will be best for someone who normally uses an eyeshadow primer (or even a white-based/cream-colored base), likes softer colors, and prefers their pigmentation to be medium and buildable rather than intensely pigmented. The formula felt comparable to LORAC’s typical Pro palettes, but these felt denser and had more substance to them, so there was less excess product kicked up in the pan, and some shades lasted longer (without primer) than is typical.

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Lavender

Lavender is a soft, light-medium lavender with cool undertones and a matte finish. It had good pigmentation with a smooth, soft feel that didn’t kick up excess product in the pan but still blended well and applied evenly. This shade wore well for seven and a half hours on me before creasing.

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Eggs Benny

Eggs Benny is a soft, grayish green with a barely-there silver pearl. It looked more matte than shimmery on the lid. It had semi-opaque pigmentation that was somewhat buildable. The eyeshadow was soft, a touch on the thin side, and prone to sheering out on the lid, which is why it was only somewhat buildable when I tried using it. This shade wore well for seven hours on me before fading.

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Gluten Free

Gluten Free is a bright white with subtle, warm undertones and a metallic sheen. The texture felt less dense than a lot of the brand’s shimmer eyeshadows, but it wasn’t powdery and was buildable to opaque coverage in two layers. This shade wore nicely for eight hours on me.

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Hot Sauce

Hot Sauce is a light-medium, orange-coral with warm undertones and a matte finish. It had semi-opaque, buildable color payoff paired with a soft, lightly dusty texture that was a little thin but not hard to work with, even without primer. The color started to fade noticeably after seven and a half hours of wear.

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Jelly Donut

Jelly Donut is a pale pink with subtle, warm undertones and a matte finish. It had a stronger white base and had a thinner, more powdery texture that gave it a more chalk-like look and feel on my skin. It had sheer coverage, which wasn’t buildable to more than medium coverage. The eyeshadow lasted for six hours on me.

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Pancakes

Pancakes is a soft beige with warm, peachy undertones and a satin sheen. It had rich, opaque pigmentation that was soft, smooth, and blendable without being powdery or prone to fallout. The eyeshadow wore well for eight hours on me.

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Sorbet

Sorbet is a muted, medium pink mauve with neutral-to-warm undertones and a matte finish. It had semi-opaque color coverage that was buildable to opaque coverage in two to three layers. The consistency was smooth, not too thin or too thick, and didn’t feel powdery at all, though it was soft and blendable. It wore well for seven hours on me.

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Valet

Valet is a soft, dove gray with cool undertones and a matte finish. It had sheer coverage, which wasn’t buildable, so it was hard to get it to show up well on my skin tone. I had the best luck using it as a transition shade next to a darker crease shade (like a navy blue, black, etc.). It wore for six hours before fading on me.

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Bloody Mary

Bloody Mary is a light-medium pink-coral with a satin finish. It had semi-opaque pigmentation that was somewhat buildable, though it was hard to achieve opaque coverage without a tacky base. The texture was soft, slightly dusty but not too prone to fallout during application. On me, the eyeshadow started to fade after seven hours of wear.

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Blueberry Scone

Blueberry Scone is a muted periwinkle blue with cool undertones and a matte finish. It had semi-sheer coverage, which I was able to build to medium coverage without primer and semi-opaque coverage with primer. The texture was silky smooth but was thin and prone to sheering out. This shade wore well for seven and a half hours on me (surprisingly!).

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Moonlight

Moonlight is a light, yellowed gold with warm undertones and a frosted finish. The consistency was soft, smooth, and blendable without being too powdery or prone to sheering out, though it did not seem quite as dense as the previously-released version I reviewed. It had opaque pigmentation that lasted for eight hours on me.

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Avocado Toast

Avocado Toast is a brighter, light-medium aqua with greener leanings and a matte finish. It had semi-opaque, buildable color payoff paired with a soft, smooth, and blendable texture that wasn’t too powdery or thin. This shade lasted for seven hours on me.

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Mimosa

Mimosa is a light-medium peach with warm, yellow undertones and a matte finish. It had medium color coverage that was somewhat buildable to semi-opaque coverage, but you would need a white base or tacky primer to get opaque coverage out of this shade. The texture was soft, a touch dusty, and seemed thinner, though it was blendable and lasted for seven hours on me.

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Smoothie

Smoothie is a light-medium lavender with subtle, warm undertones and a pearly sheen. It had good pigmentation that applied evenly to bare skin, while the eyeshadow itself felt soft, a touch dusty, but blendable, so it was easy to work with and did not have fallout. This shade stayed on well for seven and a half hours before fading.

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French Toast

French Toast is a soft, golden pewter with warm undertones and a pearly sheen. The color payoff was opaque, while the texture was thinner than most of the brand’s shimmer eyeshadows, so there was a touch of fallout during application. It wore well for seven and a half hours on me.

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Sunday Funday

Sunday Funday is a softened, light-medium coral with warm undertones and a pearly sheen. It had good color coverage that applied well to bare skin. The eyeshadow felt soft enough to be blendable but did not have any fallout or dustiness to it. The color started to fade after seven and a half hours of wear.

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Alyssa

Totally agree with you one your review. Some shades are great, but nearly half of them were subpar? Which is sad, because I was most excited for the matte pastel shades. Tried wearing blueberry scone with the LORAC primer but it kept disappearing! Had better luck layering it over the MAC paint pot in painterly as a primer. Keeping the palette anyway because all these shades are great for everyday.

Different batches again I think. My palette is excellent. There’s only one shade, the lightest, that is somewhat lacking in pigmentation. Otherwise, all of mine are A+, A, A-, and B+. I wore 4 of the shades yesterday through rain, wind, and then sweating like mad. All of them lasted from 6 a.m. through 5:30 p.m. (when I finally removed my makeup) with no fading, creasing, or fallout. That said, I do use primer when I do my eye looks.

Honestly, it wore really well for me. I am going to try playing with it using some of the new Nyx Vivid Colors Creams as a base. I already bought the one that’s a pastel lilac and plan on getting the pastel blue one.

Well, I was expecting a total Sephora Panetone disaster, but this looks pretty good for a pastel palette. Yes, a couple of duds, but the rest look like they will be workable with primer or cream base. And lots of unique, hard-to-find colors, so I’m willing to work with them.

Right?! “Moonlight” didn’t seem to fit the theme to me either. No one goes to brunch in the middle of the night. While originally typing up this comment, I made a tongue-in-cheek remark about “maybe it’s a new trendy cocktail I’m unfamiliar with.” So I paused and decided to Google it. Apparently there IS a cocktail called the Moonlight, it’s a tweaked recipe from an Aviation, and it calls for gin, triple sec, creme de violette, and fresh lime juice shaken over ice and served in a champagne flute. I’m not entirely sure how popular it is or that LORAC’s people knew about this, but uhh.. They were able to use a previously released shade that they apparently desperately wanted to use again in this palette without having to change the name and still kept the theme, instead of creating a new eerily similar shade or just changing the name and being found out as liars when Christine inevitably swatched it and duped them 100%, lol

I think French Toast was my favorite shade. Too many misses to consider it plus the fact that pastels often make me look horrible. You’d think being fair they would be great but they often look like a hot chalky washed out mess. Maybe if I was blonde it would not be so bad but having medium auburn-ish hair seems to be part of the problem.

The spring/summer of pastel eyes and nude-ish lips is upon us!
Well, I do like many of these shades, and that you were definitely able to get a gorgeous soft rainbow eye looks from it. But I did just buy Pastel Goth, which will *probably* look better on me than this would because of my lighter eye color paired with slightly darker skin? I still haven’t used it yet! Then again, my wintery sweaters and tops, other than black, wouldn’t go with pastel anything. Good thing that a third of my tops are black!

I’m torn! I think it would be a nice compliment to Pastel Goth, but the shades I’d be most interested in are the ones that are the sub-par performers. I usually wear primer, so that definitely helps, but I may wait til I see it in store to try it out on myself. Thankfu

Your eye look is beautiful! This isn’t the worst pastel palette I’ve ever seen. I think I’m covered between the KVD Pastel Goth and Sephora Modern Watercolor, though. I don’t wear pastels a lot, and I can’t justify buying this if it’s not an “A” product.

I love pastel colors altho never worn them on my eyes. At first I thought I want it! Then I thought naw now I think I want it.

It’s really different for me and the coral shades are kinda a turn off to me. Thanks for your great review! I appreciate your honesty so much after buying some products from reviews that I felt were ‘paid for’.

This palette is certainly much better than the Sephora Pantene tragedy of a year ago, but still has its hits and misses. Not a fan of these shades myself, but I think it would work well for lots of other people.

Wasn’t considering this after seeing a few chalky swatches online, but that eye look, B review and a 20% Ulta prestige coupon sucked me in. Excited to play with it and see how to best use them. Also hoping more brands jump on this trend and perfect the pastel formula. ? Thank you for all the awesome work you do!

My biggest concern is pigmentation. I’ve heard the Lorac palette shadows all end up a bit white and chalky without a strong white base like the Nyx Milk Pencil. I was wondering if Pastel Goth had those same issues, or if you even noticed any pigmentation or texture problems with the Lorac palette?

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